Common medical dilemmas, Franz Kafka version – Psychiatry in literature
Abstract
Among Franz Kafka's stories, which have been subjected to many interpretations, there is one entitled A Country Doctor, an unsettling rush of events with the vertiginous inevitability of a bad dream.The tale, at the same time mundane and unearthly, describes a succession of dilemmas and challenges which, if only in the imagination, will be familiar to many doctors, albeit in a heightened, vivid and feverish form.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Franz Kafka Literary Studies
Medicine
History
and Philosophy
Mental Health and Psychiatry
Publication details
- Journal / source
- The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume
- 228
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 279–279
- Publication date
- 17 February 2026
- Language
- EN